murder begins in summer

Shi Zhanyang had guessed the possibility of twins before.To be precise, he guessed that the chip was in another child's body, and Qiu Shili's operation was a deceptive trick, even deceiving the person involved in the operation.

However, Shi Zhanyang has never heard Qiu Shili mention any brothers and sisters from his compatriots. He can also be sure that even Qiu Shili himself does not know the existence of such a child. Besides, twins or something is too exaggerated. Two children of the same age, who were placed together at the moment the shutter flashed, also met the same hard fate.

With this kind of luck-like mentality, Shi Zhanyang took out his mobile phone to take a clear picture of both the front and back of the photo, encrypted and uploaded it, then deleted the file, lit the photo and pressed it into the ashtray.The photo paper was scorched black, and a warm and pungent smell lingered, and then he picked up the photo album and continued to look through it.

Another strange scene came into view.

It was a woman lying in a coffin, at least her white sackcloth embroidered with the Eguchi family crest showed so.The sackcloth is similar to the kimono, but with the right skirt on the top, the part above the neckline is already out of shape—the hair is gone, the scalp is gone, and the skin from the forehead to the neck is gone.She was a blurred blood figure, her mouth and eyes were three hollow blood holes, with different degrees of rot, she wore a triangular "Heavenly Crown" turban like this, and was placed in a white narrow coffin.The style of the coffin is simple, without polishing, it should be the kind to be cremated with the owner.

It took Shi Zhanyang a second to realize her identity, stood up on crutches, and quietly bowed to the photo.

The date on the back is May 2, 5.It was only five days after giving birth, and as previously investigated, this corpse should be a "masterpiece" that Eguchi Risako's mother is proud of. As for why it appeared in Eguchi Chiharu's manuscript, it should be that she took the corpse from her daughter-in-law. I snatched it from my hand, collected it on this day, and took a photo as a record.

Calculating that this year is 1990, the Eguchi Group did split into two factions in this year.

When putting the photo back into the plastic bag, Shi Zhanyang's thumb trembled. He felt a little regretful, and was anxious to keep it secret. After all, electronic records are different from physical records. The postpartum photo that was burned may be one of the few things this woman could touch. One of the images I wrote.That was the last short period of her life, a young and docile woman, Qiu Shili's biological mother.After that, she became like this.

Shi Zhanyang became more and more determined not to allow Qiu Shili to hear half a sentence of these details. He didn't have much time left for his sensibility, so he continued to browse through what had just been interrupted.I saw the second page, the third page, and the fourth page... After this page, there are more than 30 pages and more than 60 photos, all recording a child's growth.

He learned to crawl, learned to walk, learned to dress neatly in apricot-white color, and smiled at the camera while holding a shamisen.His hair has grown long, sometimes tied up loosely, sometimes draped behind his shoulders, as he squats down to pick up pebbles, and the ends of his hair float on the flowing water like lotus leaves.In the background, he is standing in a stream.

Zhan Yang had also seen that creek when he was 14 years old in Fenghuang Village, and Qiu Shili took him to see it for a few days, and whispered something. I only remember that the stream beside the pine forest has not been completely frozen, and it is flowing in the thin ice and under the soft snow like clouds and mist.

The date is marked on the back of each photo, which lasted until May of Heisei 9, and the summer was approaching, which was also the day when the operation was performed."ナナ" is also written on the back of each photo, sometimes in the shallow and wild strokes of a child.If these are also some kind of evidence, Shi Zhanyang is already unable to destroy them.Those lines and colors projected on the photo paper, when combined, the closer to the impression at first sight, the less Shi Zhanyang can burn it.

The shadow of 20 years ago, like a bell ringing in my mind, is attached to the person in my heart, and there are all kinds of things that I missed before.So Shi Zhanyang could only silently touch the rough surface of the photos with an untimely tenderness, then fold them into a stack and put them in a file bag.

On the last page of this album, Shi Zhanyang finally found a more practical clue.A picture of a family, a total of nine people, all wearing summer clothes and clogs, with the exploding green of the forest behind them.

Eguchi Chiharu was sitting in the middle, with a kind face. There was a child standing on either side of her, who was held by different adults on the shoulders and hugged in front of her.Qiu Shili still looked like a girl, no different from that winter, with a rounder face, and the straight, smiling woman behind him made Shi Zhanyang's heart tighten—that was precisely his mother.

He held one heart tightly like this, and then looked at the other side... That child, he has the same smile and facial features as Qiu Shili.

But he was clearly raised as a boy, with short, broken hair, akimbo and a proud face.As for the adult who was holding him behind him, Shi Zhanyang also knew him. He was his mother's half-sister, who had passed away in his early years.

The date on the back is: July 9, Heisei 7.

It must have been left over from before the surgery.

Indeed, Shi Zhanyang remembered that his mother returned to Japan early that summer, and went to attend the annual "Gion Festival" alone.It wasn't until winter came that she informed Shi Zhanyang to go to Aomori to find herself.Before leaving for that remote village, Shi Zhanyang also received an email, in which he saw a blurry picture of the child lying pale on the hospital bed, with black hair spread out on the pillow.Back then, he even had some fun, always feeling that his little cousin was as weak as if she was going to die.

That was the first time Shi Zhanyang heard that name: えぐちナナ.

It turned out that there was no "Gion Festival" at all that year, and it turned out that the mother knew all about who had the twins and which chip went into whose heart.But she didn't say a word.She was present even during the operation. One child was on the operating table, like a living power pump, and was forced into the key of the vault, and the other was also in. To some extent, he was more wronged than his brother, he The marks cut by the lancet may be just to create the same scars, just like the perfect clothes and makeup before going on stage, so that no one can tell them apart and make him feel that he is the real protagonist.What a painstaking drama.

Including later, from summer to autumn to winter, during such a long recovery period, the two children were locked up in the attic, and the mother was most likely watching all this in the village.But she still didn't say a word.until she dies.

Shi Zhanyang couldn't understand.Back then, before sending his mother away, he shut Qiu Shili out of the ward. After hearing what his mother said about the chips, he was about to die. He suppressed his anger. Since then, this heart disease has followed him for more than ten years. , holding back, swallowing, whenever I feel peaceful, I will think of it again.

The one-eared tall Chinese doctor has dreamed of so many appearances in his dreams!Does the mother think that he will not find it with his hands, or does he think that he cannot find it?Or do you just want him to cast a net everywhere, make the fake show as real as possible, and also fool the Eguchi team, and draw all the blame on Qiu Shili-so Eguchi Shun is safe?

But what's the point of guarding?Oshou is fake too?

In short, unfortunately, Shi Zhanyang not only looked for it seriously, but also found it, and he found it accurately and successfully. He thought that he had been slow for many years, and finally he could take out the thing that had tortured himself and Qiu Shili for a long time, and he could treat him. The younger brother has more or less repaid the debts owed by his parents. This is good, but with another knife, the debts are even heavier.

The one who lied to him was not the doctor Qin who was tormented half to death by himself, and perhaps not the scheming Risako Eguchi, but his own mother.

For people like them, emotional change is a slow process, and Shi Zhanyang has been training himself to avoid excessive emotional changes.For so many days, it can be said that he was angry before, and he was desperately trying to dig out clues and see the facts clearly. This kind of continuous anger is like magma under the thin stone skin. Give him an outlet and he can yell. , From the Eguchi group in the dog day to the stock market in the dog day, to everything in the dog day, so he has to show his ability to endure and maintain the necessary calmness.But now he is by himself, the treasury is impenetrable, no one can hear the vulgar swearing, but he can't swear at all.

When Shi Zhanyang pinched the photo, his lips were stiff, he had nothing to say.He started laughing, not knowing why, he was almost overwhelmed with joy.Could he hate a dead man?Can you hate the person who has called you mother for more than 20 years?

He didn't even have a chance to ask why.

Shi Zhanyang sat for a long time leaning against the pile of cluttered waste paper, drank all the herbal tea, and then smoked one by one, he needed enough time to sort out his thoughts.The first thing, whether Eguchi Shun is still alive, he doesn't care about this matter; second, who else knows the secret of the twins, this matter can't get a definite result in a short time, and if things go on as usual, nothing will happen Big trouble; third, under the current circumstances, how to kill the Eguchi group, the deadly kind.It's still more realistic.

When his thoughts returned to an orderly state, Shi Zhanyang put himself on the wheelchair, put the file bag containing the photos on his lap, and unscrewed the anti-theft door.He sometimes believes in karma, and if God does not repay, he is willing to move his fingers instead of repaying.

There are several transparent windows in the corridor outside the vault. The sky is already bright, and a large beam of sunlight hits Shi Zhanyang's legs. Through the transparent file bag, it shines on Qiu Shili's hair like water lily leaves floating on the stream. .

He stopped the wheelchair, and looked down at the patch of sunlight for a few times, and then a few more times, for a long time.

Seeing that the two-week agreement had passed, Shao San called and said sadly that his sister-in-law was undergoing a review and was about to go through the formalities for discharge from the hospital. I can't stop my sister-in-law from looking for you, all I have to do is cry, "Where did you go, boss?"

At this time, Zhan Yang was much calmer. He was sitting in the car at that time. On the way to a late night club, a senior executive of the Eguchi group had been waiting for him for two hours.He took a few sips of warm water and swallowed it to moisten his hoarse voice due to excessive smoking in the past two days, and he called Qiu Shili for the day.

"How about it?"

Qiu Shili sounded a little surprised, and said briskly: "The pain is gone, and all the indicators are normal. How is it, brother?"

Shi Zhanyang rubbed the center of his brows, "I'm in Abu Dhabi to make a deal, and I won't be able to go back until some time later." He didn't have much energy left to lie, so he could only say that he was a frequent visitor and far away, so that Qiu Shili wouldn't be disturbed. What to find your own mind.Before leaving for Japan, he froze his passport just in case, but he knew what Qiu Shili would think and feel if he found out about this.

Fortunately, his little brother was still like every time, he said what he said, no matter whether he believed it or not, and whether he was curious or not.This made Shi Zhanyang feel a kind of comfort, he felt that he was understood.

Qiu Shili told him: "It's noon over there, brother, don't wander around outside."

Shi Zhanyang smiled and said: "Then I'll take a nap. Remember to pick a few cars, and give the ones you don't want to the fourth."

Qiu Shili also smiled: "I picked one, and we will go for a drive on Highway 1 together when we come back."

This sentence can be said to be very effective. Later, when Shi Zhanyang chatted with the 50-year-old bald man, the boredom in his heart was relieved a lot.This is already the fourth one. He carefully studied the current roster of the Eguchi Group and singled out those who are older and have families. Such people tend to shrink their ambitions and want to find a backer to spend their old age in peace and prosperity. day, then Shi Zhanyang is undoubtedly an excellent candidate.

He held brief talks with these men and gave them large sums of cash without asking them to quit the organization and join him.Anyway, to put it nicely, these people will of course die with the Jiangkou group in the end, Shi Zhanyang just wanted to get some news out quickly, for example, what is supporting the Jiangkou group because of the rapid cooling of the sex business over the years.Gambling and drugs?Of course.Gambling is enough, it is also a sunset industry under the impact of the Internet, what about drugs?Where did they get the poison from?This is what Shi Zhanyang wanted to inquire about.

His trick is very effective, the guns are aligned, good wine and dollar bills are also entertained, and those who have worked to middle age and become weak and have a lot of news can kneel down and call daddy. Shi Zhanyang tried it repeatedly, but after a week passed, he really I figured out the stable source of the poison of the Eguchi Group, which only came out in recent years, but it is very reliable, the asking price is low, and the supply is good. However, the boss of the other party is very mysterious and never shows up. The Eguchi Group cannot find him. I can wait for him to come to me.

As for the situation after finding it, this kind of middle-aged man is not high enough, and it is not clear.

So Shi Zhanyang also felt that it was not enough, he kept thinking, how can he let that mysterious drug dealer take the initiative to find him?Only by finding myself can I have a chance to cut off this rhizome.The fact that he is in Japan, at least the local people who work in related industries must have spread widely. If people don't come to look for him, it means that the temptation is not enough.

A few days later, and met several old triads who were moved by An Yi's thoughts, Shi Zhanyang still failed to find out more valuable news.He was really worried, and really wanted to go home to see Qiu Shili, hold him in his arms and rub him well. He was in urgent need of this kind of oxygen inhalation activity, and he didn't want to ask anyone to give money anymore. That night, he suddenly realized that he was almost I haven't had a video chat with Qiu Shili for a week, and I was about to switch to the intranet to dial, when I was suddenly dialed into a call.

It's the number he announced to the public, and there are a lot of harassing phone calls at ordinary times. There are entrepreneurial college students who cry their father and mother saying that they are bankrupt and ask for investment, as well as teenagers who are bullied by gangsters and beg him to be fair. How should he hide the corpse? Desperate Housewives, Shi Zhanyang later ignored calls from this number.But this time he swiped to answer the call, because the call was encrypted and displayed as unknown.

"Hello?" Shi Zhanyang said in Japanese.

"Hello." The other party also spoke Japanese, and the pronunciation was very standard and very slow, "I am the person you are looking for."

"Oh, who am I looking for?"

"Haha, you don't need to test me, we should be allies, the Eguchi group can't survive without me," the other party paused, "You need to meet me, the premise is that you are alone, zero weapons I'm going to have a lot of guns on you because you haven't earned my trust."

Shi Zhanyang recognized it clearly. It was the sound of a machine. Although the scholar was very proficient and better than any voice assistant on the market, the laughter exposed him. The two sounds had exactly the same tone, and no living person would know If you laugh like that, no living person will say every word "I" with equal importance.

"Okay, I'm looking forward to it very much." Shi Zhanyang said with a smile.

The address the other party sent was in Tokyo, on the roof of a building in Ginza, and the time was set at midnight that day, less than two hours before the call was hung up.

Of course, Shi Zhanyang couldn't be sure whether the other party was true or not, or in other words, he couldn't guarantee his own safety regardless of whether it was true or not.But he went there on time. Fortunately, the building is not the tallest in that area, and the sniper spot is still easy to find. Before his wheelchair enters the straight ladder, the gunmen from all directions are ready. If he is really unarmed , Impatient to get on the hook of fishing, this way of death is too stupid.He's past the age where he would bet on his life honestly and rationally.

Only Shi Zhanyang sat on the top floor.No one knew who he was going to see on this trip. To be on the safe side, he threw away the miniature headset and walkie-talkie in front of the trash can, picked up his crutches, climbed up the steps step by step, and pushed open the door to the roof.

Sure enough, there were guns, but there were not many on the surface. There were only three plain black suits with three muzzles, surrounded by a masked man in the middle.

"As expected, you are here." It was still a mechanical voice, without wind, it sounded very clear.Shi Zhanyang saw clearly the computer in his hand, and also saw his mask clearly, covering the upper half of his face, it was pure black, but its shape was very exaggerated, with a huge beak and diamond-shaped eyes that were not hollowed out, like some kind of bird kind.

"Phoenix." The man said again, without opening his mouth, he tapped on the keyboard quickly, "Scorched Phoenix."

"Hello." Shi Zhanyang put his cane under his arm and shook hands with him.

"Didn't bring anyone else?" The man let go quickly, still very cautious.

"Haha, there is no one to help me move the wheelchair." Shi Zhanyang smiled and observed calmly. Apart from the familiar facial features in the lower half of the man, he also noticed the white hair hidden behind the mask, the middle-length hair, All white, but the skin on this person's hands is very smooth and full of flesh and blood, at least he is not an old man in his seventies or eighties. "Let's get to the point?"

"Okay." The man sat on the ground directly, cross-legged, very comfortable, the black suits did not move, and the gun was still raised.

Shi Zhanyang didn't move, and lowered his eyelashes, "If you insist on wearing a mask to me, I'm sorry I can't feel any sincerity."

"Ah?" The man raised his face ignorantly as if he didn't understand.

"Then there is no way to form an alliance." Shi Zhanyang said easily.

The man seemed to have thought about it carefully before he typed, and the mechanical male voice said in a straight line: "There is no need for this, but it will make you feel uncomfortable. Are you sure you want to take it?"

"Please." Shi Zhanyang took half a step back, he wanted to see clearly the neon lights reflected in the purple-red sky.

The man put down the computer, raised his hand to work on the back of his head, his hair fell down first, it was indeed medium-length hair, and it was indeed all white, the mask slid half an inch down, and his forehead was exposed, he was about to take it off, Shi Zhanyang The conjecture is about to be verified——

Suddenly, that is, in an instant, the two black suits fell down at the same time, and the third one was about to pull the trigger, but it also turned over suddenly.

The masked man didn't say a word, hugged the computer and jumped off the building directly. All this happened within three seconds. Shi Zhanyang didn't stop him, and he didn't see his face clearly. He moved to the edge of the roof and looked down. There was no one else.It was the first time that he felt that his leg was such a waste. Shi Zhanyang was furious, and he didn't have a walkie-talkie. He called the guard downstairs and asked them to search the whole building, including the upper floors, the ground, and the underground. , but also to take out the shooter, what danger was there just now?The three bullets are neat, and all the previous things have been wasted, and it is even more interesting to call out this chubby masked man who loves to put on airs in the future!

He just felt that it would be of no use to punish the one who didn't have eyes no matter what.He failed again!Lost like a farce!The phone was dropped, and the wind started to blow at some point, and it was blowing coolly against his ears. Shi Zhanyang resentfully picked up his crutches, and was about to go downstairs. When he turned around, his eyes swept over the three dead people, and suddenly bumped into a pair of leather shoes.

He froze for a moment, forcing himself to look up slowly and inch by inch. If he looked too fast, he decided that he would go crazy immediately--legs, waist, a pair of hands holding a gun, lime stains on his trousers, wearing only one A shirt... and a face that I think about day and night these days, pale, tired, tense.

Qiu Shili stared at him blankly, "Brother, did I...do something wrong?"